I don't understand why we're reading this. Was it leaked? Pretty much every big tech firm does this twice a year, but nobody releases the reports.
Holding the rich to account. How very non politically correct and unjournalistic of them.
How about when they publicly outed him as gay, when he wasn't out to most of the general public?
Source, but don't visit it, in case you give those parasites a couple of dimes in the process: http://gawker.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people
Publishers -- online & off -- now fear that a single lawsuit has the potential to shut them down. Many on hn have applauded the cases' outcome. Yet it presents a future where big corporations and the world's ultra wealthy can fund endless suits against hostile news outlets until they fold. That is a chilling future in exchange for being free of the drivel of horse shit Gawker and Jezebel published daily.
Bezos and other business minded press owners recognize this. Even if they aren't free speech idealists, they don't appreciate dramatic adjustments to their company valuations due to previously unforeseen external threats.
One can weave a lot of threads between Thiel, Buzzfeed, Facebook, and even Trump. May be it has nothing to do with Peter Thiel and it was just a few disgruntled employees or two.
One thing is certain, when sources complain about Thiel or his companies now and in the future, journalists are going to be paying a little more attention than they did before.
For what its worth, in regard to the original article, it doesn't strike me as particularly damning to Palantir. If a pentest fails, either you hired someone who wasn't that good, or your network is airgapped and your devices have zero external ports.